Requirements for Performances:

A group of no more than 5 people

100 lines of memorized carefully chosen dialogue

Costumes and props

A 5 min question and answer period where you explain why you chose what you chose to perform. You will answer:
1.    What major themes are being presented in the performance
2.    Where else do these themes appear in the play and what their significance is in your section and elsewhere
3.    What the character’s motivations are
4.    What the playwrights motivations may have been
5.    How you hoped the audience would react (fear, laughter, anger)
6.    How you worked to achieve these goals
7.    What the staging of the play taught you about the play and the cultural concerns of the time

Requirements for the presentations:

This is a required class participation mark. 15%

You will present a 10 min. paper on a topic of your choice which will inform the classes reading of the topic. You may present on the text or texts discussed during the week or you may present on a cultural concern which is discussed in the text i.e. you may present on specifics of Pamphilia’s problematic desire, or the way the author racialists blackness in the sonnet sequence.

You must do research for this assignment. You may only use peer-edited journal articles or books/book chapters. You may not use websites, anthologies, or encyclopedias or wikis. You must use 4 sources. You must quote directly from your sources and from the primary text/ texts.

A four page paper version of your presentation is due the same day. This will be properly formatted using MLA style format, times new roman 12 point font, with one inch margins, a  MLA style works cited page, page numbers, a cover page.

You will present in an engaging and exciting style. You will pre-prepare discussion questions for the class which you will submit with your paper.

You may bring handout, props, or any other tools (including treats for the class) which you think will help your presentation.